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Rice Challenges Report on Afghan PresidentISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 27 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who arrived here Tuesday at the start of a trip that will also take her to Russia, announced she will go to Afghanistan on Wednesday morning to bolster support for embattled Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

On the flight here Rice fervently defended Karzai as an "extraordinary leader," dismissing a report in The Washington Post that he is losing Afghan and foreign support.

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